Education

• The only College of Veterinary Medicine in the State.
• Departments include: Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Large Animal Clinical Sciences, Infectious Diseases & Pathology, and Physiological Sciences. Areas of strength at the college include food animal medicine, aquatic medicine, environmental toxicology, large animal medicine and surgery, small animal medicine and surgery, theriogenology, and wildlife and zoological medicine.

Patient Care

• The Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital is a major veterinary referral center treating more than 19,200 animals annually.  Cases seen in the hospitals are referred by veterinarians throughout the state. Routine wellness and outpatient medicine clinics are also available.

Extension

• The Veterinary Extension Service plays a key role in communicating essential information to owners regarding the care of agricultural animals.

Research

• The Infectious Diseases program investigates emerging and exotic infectious diseases of livestock, pets and wildlife. Emphasis is on Potential threats to public health and our livestock industries, including potentially invasive foreign animal diseases, agents of bioterrorism and potential vaccines for feline and human AIDS.
• The Aquatic Animal Health program is the most broadly based of any veterinary college worldwide. It conducts extensive research on the health, management, and conservation of a wide range of free-living, captive, and farmed aquatic animals from shellfish to marine mammals, with special emphasis on the Florida manatee.
• Our basic and clinical scientists conduct extensive neuroscience research in collaboration with the Brain/ Genetics Institutes and the Cancer Center.
• The College's Center for Environmental and Human Toxicology is in the forefront of issues such as the impact of pollutants and nanotoxicology.
• The Equine Research program investigates neonatology and reproduction, infectious diseases, colic, alternative medicine and performance medicine, and evaluates elimination and drug abuse in race horses.

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